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• Attica Blue: Posted May 25, 2012 11:37am PDT Hah hah, so true.
• Attica Blue: Posted May 25, 2012 10:56am PDT Illuminating. China's All-Seeing Eye With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state....
• Attica Blue: Posted May 25, 2012 10:26am PDT Actually, this was at a black church in New York City.
• Attica Blue: Posted May 25, 2012 8:14am PDT I was there with a friend of mine and long-time attendee who is a lesbian. No joke. She was also dating a guy though (also from the church). She...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 25, 2012 7:55am PDT Hah hah, wow. I was in a church once where the pastor was talking about "love" and there's nothing more important than love, yadda, yadda, yadda...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 24, 2012 8:16am PDT Two things: One, when I say "rules" I mean regulation. Second, grammatically speaking, I don't understand your third sentence. I can sort of guess...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 24, 2012 8:13am PDT Try this: Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy “Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 24, 2012 8:06am PDT Unfortunately, the defenders of complex finance characterize it otherwise. To hear them tell it, rules just "stifle innovation."
• Attica Blue: Posted May 24, 2012 7:44am PDT True, it's not the invisible hand, but it's the hand that invariably shows up when you fail to have rules, enforce those rules and/or embrace a...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 24, 2012 6:07am PDT There is an almost zero chance of this happening. Wall Street owns the US government. See, for example: S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 23, 2012 6:19pm PDT At some point even the Wall Street apologists may have to concede the Street is a criminal racket, and systemically corrupt, as opposed to being...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 23, 2012 10:34am PDT You might be interested in this book, written by a Silicon Alley computer engineer, Martin Ford. I've mentioned it before and it's called "The...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 23, 2012 10:25am PDT Could be a lot of things--as the author says, he thinks it's factors like unions, people with useless liberal arts degrees and so on. So the kind...
• Attica Blue: Posted May 23, 2012 8:24am PDT Also, GDP per capita has been going up. Problem solved.
• Attica Blue: Posted May 23, 2012 8:14am PDT For The First Time—The Majority Of US Unemployed Have Some College Education For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age...